Vancouver students closer to seeing NASA conduct experiment on International Space Station
What's almost as good as visiting the International Space Station? Having your scientific experiment carried out by NASA in orbit.
Two Vancouver students are one step closer to this lofty goal. Michael De Lazzari and Jenny Zhang entered the YouTube Space Lab contest and their proposal has been selected as one of 60 finalists.
Their project would see fruit flies taken up to the space station and observed for structural changes over six months. The idea is to gain incite into astronaut health and manned spaceflight.
Public voting runs until Tuesday (January 24). Six regional winners will be named in February. Two global winners will be announced later and eventually see their experiments conducted on the space station and live streamed on YouTube.
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Matthew Pavlick
Jan 22, 2012 at 3:44am
They should take some of the later generations and re-acquaint them with Earth gravity to study the effects of lower gravity life adapting to higher gravity level environments. That way if we were in space for such a time that it changed our body composition over generations we'd have a better idea of how we would adapt to a higher gravity environment again.